Confluence of Theories

Abstract

The search for a single unifying theory that explains gravity along with quantum mechanics may have obscured the progress toward a more encompassing view from multiple sources.  The author shares the view championed by Beverly Berger and Lee Smolin at GR21 that people working on competing theories of quantum gravity have much to gain from comparing notes and sharing results.  The side-by-side and concurrent representations for multiple theories of gravitation in the Mandelbrot Set shows they are compatible and may apply simultaneously, and suggests none of the competing theories gives us the whole picture.